- Industri: Government; Military
- Number of terms: 79318
- Number of blossaries: 0
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Directives issued by competent military authority which delineate the circumstances and limitations under which United States forces will initiate and/or continue combat engagement with other forces encountered.
Industry:Military
Requirements are requests for surveillance, including relative priorities for coverage and sensitivity levels, based on operational orders, selected response options and current surveillance system availability.
Industry:Military
A subordinate operational component of a tactical air control system designed for control and direction of close air support and other tactical air support operations, and normally collocated with fire support coordination elements.
Industry:Military
An analysis of program cost estimates conducted by an impartial body disassociated from the management of the program. (See Title 10, United States Code, Section 2434, "Independent Cost Estimates; Operational Manpower Requirements.")
Industry:Military
A series of tests conducted during the demonstration and validation phase. Components, subsystems, or the total (or full) system are examined to determine whether the system is ready for EMD. State-of-the-art technology is addressed in DT I.
Industry:Military
A BMDO-approved listing and description of ballistic missile targets which have been (or are being) developed to meet a variety of target users’ needs, validated as threat representative, and accredited for specific applications.
Industry:Military
An orbit 35,784 km above the equator. A satellite placed in such an orbit revolves around the earth once per day, maintaining the same position relative to the surface of the earth. It appears to be stationary, and is useful as a communications relay or as a surveillance post.
Industry:Military
The natural environment which exists above the sensible atmosphere. Space begins approximately 100 km and above. This environment is applicable to orbiting space craft, to interceptors in the exoatmospheric portions of flight, and it affects the propagation of radar and communications signals.
Industry:Military
A ranked listing of facilities, forces, and national political items that require protection from attack or hostile surveillance. The list is compiled from Federal departments and agencies, Unified and Specified Commands, and the Armed Services to ensure National Security Emergency Preparedness functions.
Industry:Military
A set of automated tools, firmware devices, and hardware necessary to test software. The automated tools may include but are not limited to test tools such as simulation software, code analyzers, test case generators, path analyzers, etc. and may also include those tools used in the software engineering environment.
Industry:Military
